edition

See also: édition

English

Etymology

From French édition, from Latin ēditiō, from ēdere (“to publish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈdɪʃən/, [ɪˈdɪʃ.n̩]

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• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /əˈdɪʃən/
• Homophone: addition (weak vowel merger)
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

edition (plural editions)

1. (publishing) A written work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner, or at a certain time.

   She wanted a copy of the Clericotes edition, but had to settle for the 1921 edition. She had never liked abridged editions.

2. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time.

   The first edition was soon sold.

3. An instance of [1] or [2]:

   What he had found was a particularly valuable first edition.

4. (sports) A particular instance of an event.

   The 2014 edition of the Tour de France started in Leeds, Yorkshire.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:edition.

Derived terms

• author's edition
• bulldog edition
• cabinet edition
• co-edition
• collector's edition
• dead tree edition
• e-edition
• limited edition
• pocket edition
• red-letter edition
• re-edition

 

Translations

literary work

• Arabic: طَبْعَة f (ṭabʕa)
• Armenian: հրատարակություն (hy) (hratarakutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: nəşr
• Bashkir: баҫма (baśma)
• Belarusian: выда́нне n (vydánnje), выда́ньне n (vydánʹnje) (Taraškievica)
• Bulgarian: изда́ние (bg) n (izdánie)
• Catalan: edició (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 版 (zh) (bǎn), 版本 (zh) (bǎnběn), 版次 (zh) (bǎncì)

• Czech: vydání (cs) n
• Danish: udgave c
• Dutch: editie (nl) f
• Esperanto: eldono
• Finnish: painos (fi), laitos (fi)
• French: édition (fr) f
• Friulian: edizion f
• Georgian: გამოცემა (gamocema)
• German: Ausgabe (de) f
• Greek: έκδοση (el) f (ékdosi)
• Hebrew: הוצאה f
• Hindi: संस्कारण m (sanskāraṇ)
• Hungarian: kiadás (hu)
• Irish: eagrán m, atheagrú m
• Italian: edizione (it) f
• Japanese: 版 (ja) (ばん, ban)
• Kazakh: басылым (basylym)
• Korean: 판(版) (ko) (pan)
• Kyrgyz: басылыш (ky) (basılış)
• Lao: ສະບັບ (sa bap)
• Macedonian: издание n (izdanie)
• Maori: putanga
• Marathi: आवृत्ती f (āvŕttī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utgave m or f

• Occitan: edicion (oc) f
• Persian: ویرایش (fa) (virâyeš), نشر (fa) (našr)
• Polish: edycja (pl) f, wydanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: edição (pt) f
• Romanian: ediție (ro)
• Russian: изда́ние (ru) n (izdánije)
• Scots: edeetion
• Scottish Gaelic: deasachadh m, eagran m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: изда́ње n

  Roman: izdánje n

• Slovak: vydanie n
• Slovene: izdaja (sl) f
• Spanish: edición (es) f
• Swahili: toleo (sw)
• Swedish: utgåva (sv) c
• Tajik: нашр (našr), чоп (tg) (čop)
• Thai: ฉบับ (th) (chà-bàp)
• Turkish: basım (tr)
• Ukrainian: вида́ння (uk) n (vydánnja)
• Uzbek: nashr (uz)
• Vietnamese: xuất bản (vi)
• Welsh: argraffiad m
• Yiddish: נוסח m (nusekh)

whole set of copies, print run

• Arabic: طَبْعَة f (ṭabʕa)
• Armenian: տպաքանակ (hy) (tpakʿanak)
• Belarusian: выда́нне n (vydánnje), выда́ньне n (vydánʹnje) (Taraškievica), вы́пуск m (výpusk), тыра́ж m (tyráž)
• Bulgarian: тираж (bg) m (tiraž)
• Danish: oplag n
• Dutch: druk (nl) c
• Finnish: painos (fi)
• French: édition (fr) f
• German: Auflage (de) f
• Greek: έκδοση (el) f (ékdosi)
• Hungarian: kiadás (hu)
• Japanese: 版 (ja) (ばん, ban)
• Malay: edisi
• Maori: putanga
• Marathi: आवृत्ती f (āvŕttī)
• Polish: nakład (pl) m
• Portuguese: tiragem (pt) f
• Romanian: ediție (ro) f, tiraj (ro)
• Russian: изда́ние (ru) n (izdánije), вы́пуск (ru) m (výpusk), тира́ж (ru) m (tiráž)
• Scottish Gaelic: deasachadh m, eagran m
• Spanish: edición (es) f, tiraje m
• Swahili: toleo (sw)
• Swedish: upplaga (sv) c
• Tagalog: hipno
• Thai: ฉบับ (th) (chà-bàp)
• Ukrainian: вида́ння (uk) n (vydánnja), ви́пуск m (výpusk), тира́ж m (tyráž)
• Welsh: argraffiad m

Further reading

• edition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “edition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• noetiid, odinite, tenioid, tineoid

Danish

Noun

edition c (singular definite editionen, plural indefinite editioner)

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Declension

Declension of edition

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	edition	editionen	editioner	editionerne
genitive	editions	editionens	editioners	editionernes

Further reading

• “edition” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Noun

edition

1. genitive singular of editio

Anagrams

• editoin, tiedoin